“We are now focused on the lessons we can learn from the incident and also what additional operational redundancies might be available,” Gerry Cahill, Carnival’s president and chief executive officer, told conference attendees of Cruise Shipping Miami 2013.

Carnival released the full transcript of Cahill’s statements Tuesday afternoon.

The “comprehensive review,” he said, will focus on four areas:

Prevention, detection and suppression of fires

Engine room redundancies

What additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators

Changes Carnival can make based on the above results

“Now, I can assure you since this fire has occurred it has been the number one priority for both Carnival Cruise Lines and Carnival Corp. We have a number of experts from a lot of different disciplines involved in the process of performing this review, including experts in fire safety; naval architects, marine engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers,” Cahill said, noting experts have been “pulled in” from shipyards, engine manufacturers, electrical machinery equipment manufacturers and class society.

“We have a number of different teams working on this. They are located in four different locations right now. We have a group in Mobile; we have a group in Miami; we have group in Southampton, and we also have a group in Trieste, Italy, working on this,” Cahill said.

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Teresa Hatfield, team leader of the New Orleans-based Marine Casualty Investigation Team, has stated the fire was “immediately extinguished by the crew,” whom she praised, and the ship’s fire suppression system.

Cahill said although Triumph does have two independent engine rooms, the fire knocked both “out of commission,” prompting the emergency diesel generator to activate until the ship was docked safely in Mobile four days later.

“Once the fire occurred, I can tell you that our highest and only priority was the safety of our guests and crew. We tried to make things as comfortable as we could for them in a tough position and also to get everybody home as quickly and as safely as we possibly could,” he said.

By contrast, Cahill said the 2010 fire aboard the Carnival Splendor stemmed from a “catastrophic failure” of a diesel generator.

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“In reviewing things after that fire, we put a number of changes in place. We spent millions of dollars from the lessons learned from the Carnival Splendor fire, and many of those things worked. They helped us to extinguish this fire more quickly. Obviously, there is more we will learn in our current review, as we look for additional opportunities for more redundancies throughout our fleet,” Cahill said.

In addition to assisting the Coast Guard, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bahamian government in their Triumph inquiries, Carnival Corp. is also “doing a simultaneous review of all the ships across all of our sister brands trying to do the same type of thing we are doing at Carnival Cruise Lines,” Cahill said.

“This review is very comprehensive, it will take us a little bit of time to complete it, but you can rest assured that it is our highest priority throughout the entire organization. It is the thing we are most focused on and we will come up with solutions that we can implement across our fleet,” Cahill said.